With $2.5 billion in facility-specific investment and 2,500 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.
View full methodology →The energy context.
Manufacturing the equipment of the energy transition — solar modules, transformers, switchgear, electrolyzers, advanced batteries — has become a domestic industrial priority in its own right. The Inflation Reduction Act's §45X advanced-manufacturing production credits make the unit economics workable at US labor costs. Transformer shortages are now a meaningful constraint on the broader power-grid expansion.
At a glance
- Company
- QCells (Hanwha)
- Industry
- Energy
- Location
- Cartersville, Georgia
- Investment
- $2.50B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 2,500
- Status
- Under Construction
- Announced
- Jan 11, 2023
- Expected opening
- Dec 1, 2025
- Added to tracker
- Apr 15, 2025
Official references
- Primary source https://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2023-01-11/gov-kemp-qcells-more-double-production-georgia-create-2500-new-jobs
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